<h4>Megan Abbott is the Edgar-winning author of seven novels, including Dare Me, The End of Everything, and The Fever. Her stories have appeared in anthologies including Queens Noir and The Best American Mystery Stories. She is also the author of The Street Was Mine, a study of hardboiled fiction and film noir. Her next novel, You Will Know Me, comes out in July 2016.</h4>

Megan Abbott

Ugliness and Glamour

"The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter, eh?" — Dashiell Hammett

Noir

A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert “Believe It Or Not!” Ripley

Man and Wunderkammern: "The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert Ripley"

Boris Dralyuk is the Editor-in-Chief of the&nbsp;Los Angeles Review of Books. He is a literary translator and holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA, where he taught Russian literature for a number of years. He has also taught at&nbsp;the University of St Andrews, Scotland. His work has&nbsp;appeared in the&nbsp;Times Literary Supplement,&nbsp;The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books,&nbsp;London Review of Books, The Paris Review,&nbsp;The Guardian,&nbsp;Granta,&nbsp;World Literature Today,&nbsp;The Yale Review, The Hopkins Review,&nbsp;New England Review,&nbsp;Harvard Review,&nbsp;Jewish Quarterly,&nbsp;and other journals. He is the author of&nbsp;Western Crime Fiction Goes East: The Russian Pinkerton Craze 1907-1934&nbsp;(Brill, 2012) and translator of several volumes from Russian and Polish, including Mikhail Zoshchenko’s Sentimental Tales (Columbia University Press, 2018), Isaac Babel’s&nbsp;Red Cavalry&nbsp;(Pushkin Press, 2015) and&nbsp;Odessa Stories&nbsp;(Pushkin Press, 2016), Maxim Osipov’s Rock, Paper, Scissors, and&nbsp;Other Stories (NYRB Classics, 2019, with Alex Fleming and Anne Marie Jackson), and Andrey Kurkov’s Grey Bees (MacLehose Press, 2020). He is also the editor of 1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution&nbsp;(Pushkin Press, 2016), and co-editor, with Robert Chandler and Irina Mashinski, of&nbsp;The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry&nbsp;(Penguin Classics, 2015). His website is&nbsp;<a href="http://bdralyuk.wordpress.com/">bdralyuk.wordpress.com</a>. On Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/borisdralyuk">@BorisDralyuk</a>. (Photograph by Jennifer Croft.)

Boris Dralyuk

Knowing It Has to End

The Leftovers

Twilight of the Boosters

Robert Crais The Sentry:&nbsp;A Joe Pike Novel Putnam, January 2011. 320 pp.&nbsp;

The Sentry

Soft-Voiced Big Men: Robert Crais’s “The Sentry”